I agree, modern music does suck with the excetion of only a handful of rock songs. My 15 yr. old son doesn’t like it either. He likes a few newer songs, but mostly he listens to older stuff like Ozzy, AC/DC, Def Leppard, ect. Most music, especially in the rap, hip-hop, and pop genre has gone to shit in the last seven to eight years. It’s all a bunch of prepackaged crap now! I think the music kings have finally run out of ideas. 95% of the music stinks to high heaven now. It really scary to imagine what will be blaring over the airwaves 10 years from now.

the music that people claim is big in todays world, seems dull in comparision to oldies and some new artists that are unfamous.

I found a couple people on line who are totally not big sellers who are just like the good old days and they are not old.

People should be aware that some extremely gifted people are being shoved aside for some reason to give attention to mediocrity at best.

Music died a long time ago. There used to be a passion for the business when guys like Spandau Balley and Culture Club ruled the airwaves. Hell, they even played their own instruments and penned thier own songs too.

Some pop groups used drum machines, but there was nothing sinful about it. They were still great to listen to and even now, people would still sing along to the chorus from Karma Chamelion or Take On Me. But you want see me listening to much post-2000 stuff because the passion is no more.

Just listen to the pop music radio stations nowadays. You won’t hear a full set of new songs like you did in the 80’s and 90’s – instead, they play the same old songs by Moby, Evanesence, and the like that they were playing four years ago. Not just the same artists, mind you, but the VERY SAME SONGS. New bands get very little airplay, and have you noticed how many music retailers are closing down? It’s terrible. These are objective realities, not opinions. Them music industry is in a crisis.

Im makeing a band. im 16 and were gonna get rid of all of these sucky new bands. We are gonna restore Actual guitar work and not just power chords. And Hopefully get rid of all of this rap bullshit that has absolutely no musical notes in it. As well as this shity pop music.

music today sux…hair metal rules

By the way when i was commenting on the razr i forgot to mention that gwen stefani integrated the razr phone into her music video which made the phone trendy and as a result the song itself became popular. Money is the song, the corparations are the artists.

Stop complaining and listen to non-mainstream artists. Anyone who says music is dead is a complete, ignorant fool.

GOD why would anyone with an Internet connection say “Today’s music sucks”? Go to allmusic.com , try Last.fm , use google for the love of god.

Yes, the radio and MTV don’t know jack about what the people want, and people are slowly abandoning them because of it.

also, anyone who says that they hate all (ALL) mainstream music, is just trying to be cool.

Hating a band because of their image, or hating a band because of there childish fanbase, are NOT GOOD REASONS TO HATE A BAND.

The only right way to properly judge music, is by listening to a lot of music, and comparing quality.

I can say with extreme confidence that today it takes very little talent to become popular in the music industry. This new generation of shit music has come to be because of the birth of what is known as the “LG”. For those of you who don’t know, an LG, by definition, is: Little 14 and 15 year old girls who go to college parties to look cool, steal alcohol and get sex from as many guys as possible. Now these girls didn’t know it at the time. But they spawned an entire era of shitty artists. For example: Rhianna, Pussycat Dolls, etc… By supporting these untalented peices of shit, they have left the billboards full of forgetable songs. Some people don’t know where the music has gone. well I can tell you. It’s in the hearts of men and women with instruments in their hands. I’m a listener of all music. Some genres of music are still going strong like rap and hip hop. Other genres like rock and roll are starting to fade away. Sure the big bands from way back when are still touring, but for how long? Eventually, they will need to be replaced. I hope I can contribute. Peace.

Lets try to kick some dirty asses here
you are a just a Indie Queer,anonymous coward,
typical of indie/emo turds,if everybody that is reading
it are tired of the”homossexualization”of “rock”today
lets start a war,one here right now,if you see a emo
or indie or another mtv spawn on street,kick his ass
or kill him with a gun,period.Its time to change this game
now its the time,lets unite our forces to stop this
assholes,cause they deserve it and are begging for it.
no place for this suckers anymore,its time to fight for
real.We Will Never forgive this people in generations,and when they will get older,they will known as the main guilt for XXI century s music idiotisczism.so Kill them all
INDIE SUCKS!!!

The Beatles, The rolling Stones, The Doors, The Who, Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Cat Stevens, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Lynard Skynard, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix and the list would go on

pretty much anything made in the 00’s is unoriginal,and a complete sell-out, the artists are used to portray an image by the record companies to brainwash all the tweenies who look for a role model in the impressionable lives.

We need a new scene, President Bush polluting us with his emo-licious ways and his dried up ridiculous gangsta rap. I think music is the way it is because of the state of mind people are in, call it post 9/11, war in iraq, shit-fest, proud to be an Amerikkkan, everyone is wrong on the interwebs, why is everything the god damn same,”time” if you will. It just things needs to change in order for music to change and actually expose the phonies for who they are and be ridiculed for it, kinda what happened to hair bands of the 80’s and boy bands of the 90’s for example. And really MAINSTREAM is and always will be a Market for untalented hacks and actual artists that deserve it. Music is a matter of opinion but EVEN A DEAD BRAIN SHIT HEAD CAN SPOT PHONY CON-ARTISTS with they’re fake everything. And why does MTV even stand for MUSIC TELEVISION, more like REALITY TELEVISION, and even that’s fake. FUCK IT WITH A STICK……………………..soon is all i can say, I mean music changes all the time right?

Im 15 also and i totally agree. I only listen to a select few songs that are “top hits”. 50’s – 90’s was good. Rap is terrible and artists like soulja boy,chris brown, miley cyrus, panic at the disco, fall out boy, flo rida, and the jonas brothers. are just bad. I;m not saying its all bad, i like rihanna, colbie calliat & nickelback are good. But older music is soo much better. 60’s classic rock like led zeppelin and pink floyd, 70’s soft rock like 3 dog night and the eagles, 80’s pop and hair bands like genesis, journey, motley crue and bon jovi and 90’s alternative rock like red hot chili peppers, sublime, & blink-182. I love it all. It sucks that other kids my age, only like what they hear on the radio or see on tv. theyre so influenced by the media. It makes me sick, after 2 weeks theyre favorite song is old and sucks.

True. A lot of modern jazz is still recognizable as jazz (not that computerized shit). Many jazz fans may not know this. There are plenty of young jazz musicians out there (Barry Harris and Dave Brubeck are still alive)

I agree with you 99%, with the exception about American being losers, I myself am American. I am a 14 year old black female who loves rap and rock(much more also). I see how music is being destroyed, little kids dancing to soulja boy, white boys and black boys tryna be gansta, and girls exposing themselves thinking its cute(not) all because of this crap. I also agree with you on Linkin Park. An ol’ friend of mine told me about them in the elem. school. Although I didn’t catch on for a while I began to fall in love with the group a few months later. I know people who will know their songs like “numb, faint,in the end” and a few more and thats it. If your a true fan of music you know more than the songs on the radio and music chanels or any that’s just popular.Whether you buy the albums or not you should no more than the 3 or 4 songs. BUT what scares and annoys me at the same time,is that so may of my friends are oblivious to this.Some of them actually think Lil Wayne is the best rappper(not),T-pain is a lyrical and music genius(HELLnot), Ne-Yo and Chris Brown are the best r&b artists(not), Fallout Boy is awesome(not).Mariah Carey is the hotter than ever(not, was before THOUGH). Nas and others said it themselves, Hip-Hop is dead. But its all music thats dead NOW.

I read this entire page, the fuck is wrong with me? anyways man i wanna let everyone know MAINSTREAM music(not all new music) SUCKS a fat one. im 21 yrs old and am so sure music will change but goddamn this is such a grim period for impressionable music. its consumerism at its finest and crap music at its peak(i hope so). when will this shit end man?
I’m not gonna type in all the fuckin bands i listen to like a medal of honor cause theres not enough time in the day. lets just say my highlights are beethoven, metallica, and everley brothers haha 😀
Every one of you have made a damn good point: society is all about your fuckin image! AH!!!!!. i swear these fuckin pixelated black letters in forms of words do not even come close to the feelings i have for society and these fuckin drones walking around like they are the baddest fuckin speck of shit ever washed ashore from a shit ship. the fuck is with these egotistical people? they are so goddamn wrapped up in themselves (americans, and yes i am american) and its goddamn worthy of a fat slap in our fat fuck nations face for all i care. i love this country but please, clean out your polluted, diluted, watered down, screaming, whiny, gangster wannabe, bling bling cha ching, limited power chord playin ASS and let the real talent get the spotlight you fuckin pricks!

I am so FUCKING PISSED OFF! YO, YOU WATCH THE NEWS LATELY?

…there was actually a headline on the news that shocked me like a fuckin’ light socket. the top story of that time was, yes get ready…”Is Britney Spears one of the Top American Cultural Icons”

WHAT

THE

FUCK?

i dont even want to get started on “NEWS” and them mainstream, money hungry, cock suckers.

save music people, i am willing to storm center field next superbowl, and burn emo cd’s and take a shit on every last one of them with you!

please contact me if you wanna discuss or vent/share ideas or philosophy 😀

BLOCK THE RADIOS,BURN THE RECORDS,GO TO THE STREETS,WRITE IT IN WALLS,SABOTAGE,MANIFESTO,DESTROY!!!
DEATH TO TODAY S POP MAFIA!CAUSE IT SUCKS!!WAR!!!

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The mainstream is constantly scraping up the same old formulas for music production and forcing crap down peoples throats, almost everything in popular music is derivative and unoriginal. It has gotten to a point people who normally don’t concern themselves which such thoughts are noticing it.

There are artists on the fringe of the mainstream, independent and underground acts who are pushing the boundaries of great music. Granted, most of these will not appeal to your casual mainstream radio listener but since creating a great song with pop hooks has been done to death its no wonder most stuff today is shite.

This is an interesting debate, and I can see that there is a degree of hostility towards modern music as a whole. As with everything, though, you should avoid using absolutes. To suggest that ALL modern music “sucks” is facile, and suggests a lack of knowledge and of experience from the person who declares it. On the other hand, there is a definite argument that much of it re-hashed, reconstituted rubbish, which would not see the light of day if the music industry were driven by talent and not money.

Examples of this recycled culture abound. Samuel Barber’s Adagio for strings is a classic that we’ve probably all heard and can relate to. Some might say it’s overplayed, but regardless it’s one of the greats. What happens in today’s music industry is that people like DJ Tiesto and similar “artists” remix their work. This is fine when used in clubs for something to rave to, but the problem comes when it is put forward as art in it’s own right and we’re expected to listen to it in our homes, where there’s no trippy lighting or ecstasy, and we realise that the music itself is poor at best. Meanwhile, so much money has already been made out of this music in its original setting, that this is the music the radio stations and music channels push. As far as the statistics are concerned this is the music the people want, so this is what the people are given. People are becoming so naturalised to this process that it has become seemingly unstoppable.

R’n’B and Metal are two other examples, showing a different way in which music has become watered down. In both these genres there seems to have been a decline in originality, not necessarily bands copying songs but reducing them down to only the parts that were widely popular and thus coming out with repetetive sounding, moronic rubbish. When I listen to the likes of Evanescence and Usher today – mainstream examples of each of the aforementioned genres – or at least this is what we’re told they are, I hear the basics of rhythms and melodies that made bands like Pantera famous, but without any of the personality that made them great.

But never fear, the end is NOT nigh! There are plenty of great bands out there! Being a fan of the metal scene myself I can assure you that the metal world in particular is cooking up a storm. With bands such as Wintersun and Children of Bodom pushing the technical limits of the guitar further than ever before (hear Jari Maenpaa’s solo on Death and the Healing by Wintersun for examples, just search for Wintersun on myspace music), we also see other bands showing increasing maturity. Opeth is one band that pushes the boundaries of their genre beyond what is normally expected, and their deeply disturbing lyrics and melodies will send a shiver through any spine with a few nerves left in it after the 90s. The digital age has allowed such bands more exposure than they would have ever seen in the so-called “glory years” of music back in the 60s. When Death Metal originally came out in the 80s it was regarded with contempt from much of the music industry, and was an underground movement from start to finish. Now, in the 00s it is making a recovery, extreme metal is surfacing in a much more aggressive guise, and it is beginning to be regarded with respect. You have all been calling for a new genre to emerge, and this may well be it. You will probably find you don’t like it if you are of the previous generation. But your parents didn’t like your music either.

So there we have it. Modern music can be good, actually. I have focused on the metal scene because that is what I know in depth, but be assured there are similar movements within all the varied sections of music. If you are determined to focus on the mainstream and mediocre so be it, but YOU will be the ones missing out. You tell my generation that we are missing out on your over-hyped, over-played golden oldies, but I say it is you who are missing out, by your stubborn refusal to research anything new which you do not understand beyond surface level. There is a world of amazing new music out there, if only you would try and find it. But I speak futility. You will continue to listen to the same bands from the 60s and 70s over and over again. You hair will turn greyer and the world will continue to turn. No matter. I’m gonna keep listening to modern music whether you like it or not.

NB: I’m 18. If you see this as an excuse to call me an idiot, or say I don’t know shit, feel free, but be warned; you’ll look like a cretin.

I love Rock ‘n Roll from the 60s up to now, Pink Floyd, NIN, GnR, Pantera(favorite), Metallica, Ozzy, Static X, Ministry just to name a few of my favorites, and I say that much of what is called Rock ‘n Roll now days is not really Rock ‘n Roll or metal since metal is a version of Rock ‘n Roll. Rock ‘n Roll defined: “a style of popular music that derives in part from blues and folk music and is marked by a heavily accented beat and a simple, repetitive phrase structure.”

The main part of this definition that sticks out to me is “repetitive phrase structure” meaning a set of guitar, or other instrument, licks that repeat to make a rhythm. Much of the so called “metal” that is on the radio right now is defined by 5 to 10 second chords and lyrics that choke out the rest of the instruments which does nothing for me.

I don’t mind long chords but to make a whole song out of them makes for a very dull song to me. I like a well defined beat with short strong notes that make an original pattern. I don’t know about independent metal since I am just starting to look for it but as far as the so called “metal” on the radio, I’m actually disgusted.

The other thing that really turns me off is when the singer is louder than the rest of the band, which actually would be OK, but much of the time it is constant, not allowing the band to come through. If I wanted to hear this, I would record American Idol and watch that over and over again.

Considering all of this, I really don’t mind it if this is the way music is going, but don’t call it something that it isn’t. This is not rock or metal and unfortunately there are no bands that want to stick out and get really good at it, so you have dozens upon dozens of bands that sound the same and don’t do it any better that the rest.

That is my view.

“Alternative”?dont make me laugh,
this is the brand new scuse to POP sucks so much
NIN,Korn,Ministry,Static X?do you think this POP SHIT is rock?Rock is not Dead,Metal is not Dead,YOU and all
Fashionists are Dead,you are Living-Dead MTV lovers.
Marlyn Manson=POP.
So,Learn,90 S SUCKS,GRUNGE SUCKS,”Alternative”POOP ANTI-MUSIC SUCKS
and of course HIP HOP SUCKS AT ALL TOGETHER WITH THIS POP SHIT.Stop to call Real bands like Beatles or Led Zeppelin”classic”,old is your mothers,fashionists.Thats the difference between music that are for decades and today s one hit wonders.

OK Joe Shmoe, your right, rock is not dead its just mass produced SHIT.

Dont fight Fellas!,I think rock is not dead,i think ALL MUSIC IS DEAD TODAY,
we must bring back MUSIC AGAIN….

its a matter of action…
how about…MTV-MAJORS SUCKS MOVEMENT?

im a black man,i hate hip hop,i love motown and soul music,sometimes i fell to get a bazooka and kill all gangsta crap,

BRING BACK SOUL!KILL ALL THUG ASSHOLES!!GET UP AND FIGHT!

Here is another point for corporate america… this dingy little idiot actually buys the whole game – hook, line and sinker…

“well… they must be good… they are selling a lot.” (what a clever girl you are!).. why don’t you just say – The record company told me it was good… so it must be…

God, we are so screwed!!!

Modern music (and even movies) suck because of one simple reason. They are both depressing! There is no beat, no rhythm, no soul to music anymore. It just doesn’t inspire like previous generation music does. The mood is bleak and sad in most songs… it just sucks! Why would you want to depress yourself listening to music? The entire point of music should be to make yourself happy and/or relaxed.

Case in point, listen to Let’s Groove by Earth Wind and Fire. This song is quality… composed with a lot of soul and happiness. Something modern artists are simply blind to.

HOWEVER, there is hope! There is one genre/segment of the music industry that remains to be good, if not improving over time. That genre is chill-out/house/ambient. A lot of songs in this genre are well made and always seem to make me feel good, not unhappy. Check it out!

I’m 17 and yes good old days were much better(90s is my favorite) todays music sucks dick big huge donkey dick I mean rap is just disco with worse dance moves and this piss pop rock shit IE Jonas Bros go listen to your Metro staion

Are you on crack!! Linkin Park maybe one of the shittiest bands out there, and don’t get me started on the shit feast that is rap a monkey with bad gas sounds better

I don’t really get into 80s stuff but at least those guys songs had a meaning to it(a real one not boo hoo I have no girlfriend)

Ehh, while i AM american. I do agree that people need to actual listen to music they LIKE. Not music that they want to listen to just because they think it makes them cool.

Even in my music, i dont want to listen to the most popular songs out of my album because its played everywhere and is annoying to listen to. There are more than one good song a band can produce and people need to listen to more than one song on a band.

I look at people’s Ipods and I sometimes see only a couple songs made by good bands, whilst elsewhere, there are 20 songs made by popular bands.

Expand your minds people to other songs people. Sheesh.

Well Put!!!

Any Performer That Ever Sells A Product On Television Is For Now And All Eternity Removed From The Artistic World!”…BILL HICKS
And Now Me In A Tiny Nutshell. I Am A 35 Year Old Musician, And Have Been A Disc Jockey For 15 Years. I Love Music, But I Am Very Unsatisfied With The Level Of Quality The Music Industry Has Turned Out Over The Past Decade. Annoying Midi Rythms Have Replaced Skillfull Drummers, In Many Genres. Instruments Are Phased Out And Replaced With Looped Backing Vocals That Can Only Be Produced In A Studio. I Am “Anti-American Idol” I Think The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Sappy Pop Singer. I Have Noticed That Music Is No Longer Timeless, But Disposable. It’s Good For The Couple Of Weeks It’s On The Charts, Everybody Grooves To It, Then They Are Embarrased To Say They Listened To It Once It’s Not “COOL” Anymore. Making Disposable Music May Be The Industries Way Of Getting Back At A The World For Piracy, I Think It Only Encourages It. Make A Product Worth Buying And People Will Buy It!!! I Like Real People Who Aren’t Afraid To Listen To Music Outside Current Billboard Or At Least Respect The Songs Of The Founding Fathers Of Popular Music. In This “Reality TV” Generation, The Industry Have Discovered (Or Assume) One Thing…People Are Mindless Idiots That Will Eat Whatever You Throw At Them! Don’t Settle For Table Scraps!!! Raise The Bar For The Industry. A Hit Song Doesn’t Equal A Great Song!!! Decide What’s Cool For You, Not What They Say Is Cool For You!

And Now The Evolution Of Songwriting…

HIT LYRICS YESTERDAY… “Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name. Nobody came. Father McKenzie, wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave. No-one was saved. All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?”

HIT LYRICS TODAY… “Watch me crank it Watch me rollWatch me crank dat Soulja Boy,That Superman dat

Listen to Symphonic Rock or Symphonic Metal. That’s something actually new (actually, it’s been going on for about 10-13 years, just never been big until now since it’s growing since the 2003 debut of Evanescence).

But this whole thing is true. My whole freshmen year of high school, everybody were eating up metallica albums. And they thought the older ones were better.
In my junior year, kids were talking about the lists they made of the top 25 best 80’s songs.
A few other people in the back of that same class were saying how great these bands all were. And also, they loved the symphonic metal (!!!) band Nightwish, saying that Tarja was the greatest singer in the world. There music (and supporting singer) sounds like something new out of the 70’s or 80’s. If it was the 80’s, it would fit in much better yet be so distinquishable from it.
But since everyone likes garbage like Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance (booed off the stage in Europe more than once), and Paris Hilton.

I must also say that every kind of music from any era has it’s good singers. I never liked country until I heard Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood, but I’ve gotten into it because of them. Heck, I didn’t really like music until I heard Evanescence. I didn’t like nu-metal either until I heard Linkin Park. I also hated anything dance until DHT and Cascada came along. Hippie/independent music drove me nuts too until I heard Trey (former Phish Singer) and Aslyn (check her out; she is unbelievably good). Without Ciara, I would loathe anything R&B/crunk.

Then again, if you look at Meat Loaf, he’d destroy any of these singers. Unless there foreign singers who sing rock (actual rock, not pop) or metal, the older singers were better. I must add that I’m only 19.

In the reverse, in the underground scene growing today:

Hit Lyrics Yesterday (2000’s, mainstream): “I’ll take you to the candy shop. I’ll let you lick the lollipop.”
(50 Cent)

Hit Lyrics Today (now) :”Caress The One That Never Fading Rain In Your Heart That Chases Snow White Sorrow caress the one Hiding Amaranth in the land of daybreak.”
(Nightwish, Anette Olzon new lead singer)

Which one is actually good? Of course lyrics with a beautiful voice than a song any person who likes rap could sing. We need range, talent, good songwriting, and good instrument playing. Is that so much to ask?

music sucks because record companies are dictating this shit,we have to stop this stupid motto about”we are living in sad years”oh..come on!,our mission is hit the mainstream on the balls,rejecting this dictatoradio shit and creating more space to good artists,old and brand new,criticism to this forced fashionism(such bling bling pop shit)and send them back to the stoneage.No money to this assholes.

DEATH TO TOP 10!!!

Shitty popular bands farting into a microphone does not good music make.

90s was the end of good music
music still sucking,Kurt cobain was the main gilt
so..kill all gangstas,burn their houses
blow all radios up,with c4,death to mass media

Billy,80s rules,80s eletronic music was good,but 90s,after that everthing sucks at all…

I know that most mainstream music today is beyond any compare with the music of the past, but if you take the time to look, you can find some real gems in today’s music industry. I personally found refuge in the Jam Band scene with bands such as Phish, Lotus, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Allman Bros., Moe., Dave Matthews, and tons of others. These bands still perform today and are great musical experiences for anyone interested in that kind of music. Even alternative rock bands such as Coldplay, The Flaming Lips, and Radiohead have some incredible music to listen to. You just need to explore the bounds of music today. What do you have to lose by listening to some stuff you never heard off? Maybe a few minutes from your day but its worth the time.

every now and then there is a sliver of good, but it’s so few and far between. the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s just had better music and more talented artists. a lot of it just seems more like a fashion show than actual musical talent. the music of yesterday didn’t require the artist to be what passes for society’s idea of gorgeous, tho some were beautiful, of course. it’s really disheartening. my son listens to a lot of stuff i loved growing up in the late 60’s and 70’s and my young adult faves of the 80’s. i feel sorry for kids today.

Hi do you thing if now will come 10-15 bands with sounds and fell like 60’s 70’s 80’s music, will have succes? I want to come some bands like in the 60’s 70’s 80′ to come agan that spirit. (srry may english).

…but only if you recognize the good music out there like 3 doors down (amazing musicians who can sing and rock), nickelback (who dont deserve the crap they get when they have obvious talent for making catchy songs), and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who prove that “alternative” rock” can still be rock. It amazes me that people think that stuff like ac/dc is “classic” rock when they can’t even sing. Screaming is the new singing. Why do you think so many kids turn to rap? Vocal talent in rock music is practically non-existent, except in soft rock like John Mayer and Matchbox Twenty, who I think do have talent. But still, classic rock like Boston and Journey and Foreigner had good vocal talent, but seriously, these guys could rock, too, and their songs had good guitar solos in them too. Now guitar solos seem to be mostly reserved for heavy metal groups that just scream a lot. Amazing rock songs like It’s Not My Time do not come around very often, and that’s a shame. Alternative rock has taken over, and vocal talent is thrown out the window. People actually think Panic At The Disco has talent, then say that Nickelback and 3 Doors Down are watered down post-grunge crap when
they’re actually some of the only ones putting out good rock music. It sickens me.

The problem is this: The popular stations that teens listen to are either country, rock stations that play crap like Linkin Park (who are popular for some unknown reason even though they just shout a lot to the beat of a guitar), or pop stations that play pop, r&b, and rap (a combination that grows very old very fast). The good rock music is thrown into Top 40 stations that are a hybrid of new and old hits, and typically those stations play soft rock anyway, so it will be too boring for younger people. I am 17 by the way, not someone in their 40’s or 50’s. It’s a shame that my generation doesnt recognize great songs like you guys mentioned. It’s Not My Time was an amazing song to listen to, and I still like it after all the times it’s been played on the radio. Can you say the same for all those overplayed Chris Brown songs?

You have a good point about those classic rock groups. And at least the Red Hot Chili Peppers were recognized for their outstanding work on Stadium Arcadium. 6 Grammys is a good payoff for putting out good rock music in a time when good rock music is scarce. It’s one thing the Grammys did right.

if music has difficult instrumentals, unique voices, and meaningful songwriting it is good.

there has always been bad music its not about what years it came from. when you hear bob dylan you know its him, its unique, if you tried to play elliot smith guitar then you understand the talent needed to play it. the jonas brothers have poor musical skills, average voices (which wouldn’t matter if their voices were unique, but there not) and horrible lyrics. but disco was just as bad. every year of music there were bad songs, you always have to look deeper you can’t just use blanket statements like new music sucks, old is good. fuckin figure it out. everything sucks. kill me.

Oops. I meant 5 years.

dave matthews fucking sucks! and do does every single shitty band you mentioned! ahaha seriously go listen to something good.

Sometimes in my head I come up with the most original, unique ideas with unheard of lyrics. It drives me insane because I come from a non-musical family where I play no instruments, can’t write or read sheet music for the life of me and have no musical friends whatsoever. And as to music…the problem of why music is not good is precisely that they really have run out of ideas.

Everybody is nostalgic for the past. Why was the old music good? Because the artists were attempting to create a sound that was like NO OTHER THAT HAD EVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. They were pushing the envelope, trying to shock and excite people. I seemed to be a pioneer of the trend of this because in the early 90’s all I listened to was music from the 80’s back…I wanted to get into the newer stuff but it seemed shallow, toneless, pretentious and boring in comparison. In contrast, the older music had more melody, more experimentation, more excitement to it. I felt one with the music and it made me feel chills, emotion.

Nevertheless, this celebration of old music started in the 80’s, and it also started the downfall of music. From the 50’s to the 80’s, there was no desire to mimic the past…the past was a time to be forgotten and people believed that what they could do at the moment was better than anything before. There were no “golden oldies”…just bad adult contemporary from the 40’s that nobody cared to listen born after 1945, church music, largely underground soul/jazz music, bluegrass and basically very local performers earning nothing but the pleasure of making good music.

From the 50’s on, you STILL had people copying each other, shitty music, boring music. Like Motown? Note that nearly EVERY classic Motown song ultimately sounded alike at the end. Like Classic Rock? Only so many ways you can play an electric guitar. It wasn’t all good, it’s just that nearly everyone could find many songs/groups that absolutely stunned them and they couldn’t stop playing. I rarely find songs today like that, but I do find them occassionally. I became a huge fan of Radiohead long after their peak and think that they came up with some very unique, original songs with deep lyrics like nothing I’ve ever heard before. Starting out a song with the lyrics “green plastic watering can” is not your typical cheesy love song, I’m a bad ass teenage p*ick song or I’m a 40 year old fart that thinks Pink Floyd-Metallica-AC/DC is better than all bands that ever recorded before or since and nobody better disagree or else they’re fans of disco and probably lame.

What makes today’s music sucks is that they are finding convenient to cash in on the past with semi-nostalgic tunes with stupid lyrics, corny hooks and intros, saying the same thing over and over and tired formats, but disguising this by appealing to teenage rebellion by ever increasingly smutty, slutty, sleazy anti-everything lyrics…basically shifting music into a stupid chant not far different from another horrible musical trend of, you’ve got it, the 70’s known as FOLK ROCK. And yes I pissed off the 70’s purists…I cringe to think of having to listen to that shit again right along with Disco Duck and all of that played to death classic rock.

“Classic rock”, disco, alternative, heavy metal, new wave…why do you think those were so popular and STILL celebrated? Because they were absolutely like nothing ever before. But listen to any format…you’ll notice after ten different songs that they all sound alike. People got bored with them moved on…but today I’m having to listen to them all over again in a stupider, weaker form. Basically the kids got into these older groups and brought them into the stratosphere. In the 90’s, my generation was raiding their parents record collection and playing Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix like they were brand new bands. Cmon everybody…please stop this shit! Like your old stuff, but let them stay in the past. Throw in some new instruments! Create a new tempo! Try a new style of playing old instruments! Sing a song YOUR way! Maybe even leave all the instruments we use today out of music entirely and bring back instruments of antiquity for a whole new sound!

Ever since new wave and heavy metal died, people have been STARVING for something that didn’t sound like the past. Rap was a new play on an old sound with tough talking that made the teenagers open up their wallets, but now it’s stupid and tired. Alternative degenerated into faux-emo and pop-punk to offset all the wannabe Nirvana bands that couldn’t come up with an original sound for the life of them. F*ck the influences, come up with something wild, weird and unimaginable much like Gary Numan must have sounded when he brought us “Cars” in 1980…I am not betting on it with the state of ALL of the nations of the world, but even if its for a local audience and you never get to have a castle and a garage full of Porsches for doing it, you’ve got to start somewhere.

SOOOOOO true…… Can’t anyone just be themselves?

I wish the record companies and MTV would wake up out of their slumber and realize that young kids today absolutely love music from the 70’s and 80’s and the style those songs were written in. The younger generation hates the crap that is put out today. Unfortunately, it all started with Kurt Cobain and his Grunge style that put hair metal in a coma and unleashed all the other crap that followed. RECORD COMPANIES, BRING BACK THE FLAVOR OF THE 70’S AND 80’S AND BRING BACK GLAM METAL!!!!

I’m 21 and I am largely ashamed with this decade’s music… I sometimes wished I grew up in the 60s or 70s or 90s cuz they had GREAT music! Emo drove me out of listening to the radio and speaking of Rap I can tolerate it in light doses but I usually ONLY listen to them so I can laugh at their lyrical content…

I hope the 2010s brings a backlash to this messed up pathetic musical state of affairs!

I agree.

The only real talent in music these days Is in indie bands.

Its sad….you got all these under rated band with no radio time or anything…whats even worst all the cookie cutter bands (all the bands that sound alike) are always on the radio….

It seems like every thing is going to shit(music,tv,movies,ect)

aye its sad man people just wanna shake their ass to crap they call music

The MAIN PROBLEM is WE ARE ON AGE OF AQUARIUS(DAMN AGE THAT SUCKS),THE OLD TIMES (60/70/80)WAS THE AGE OF PSCIES,BRING BACK THAT FUCKING DAMN GOOD AGE OF PISCIES AGAIN….

The lack of talent and the lure of huge sums of money are only two parts of the problem. With all the great technology out there, there’s a tendency to abuse it now. Things Like auto-tuners, digital effects and the like are abused like a meth. addict. The result is the loss of emotion and dynamics. It sounds cold even. Compound the fact that MP3 is being used as a primary format for listening and there you go! Crap in a nutshell. If we are at the point where the labels get musicians that can’t rehearse until they get it right or we have people who can’t sing on key then, why should you as a consumer buy there stuff? I know an auto-tuner when I hear it.

I’m 13 and by god do I hate todays crap! Go Zeppelin, Sex Pistols and everything that isn’t from 2000 and beyond!

The article was written a long time ago and its only gotten worse. I’m talking only of the mainstream and famous music that most people hear everyday. I’m aware that there are many good “alternative” songs, but the point I’m trying to argue is the songs heard by most of society. Right now I’m in college and while it is a little bit better than high school, I find that it seems that everybody listens to the same crappy music. And it seems to me that THEY ACTUALLY LIKE IT. What I’ve come to believe is that only a small minority of my generation (college students) actually have the intellectual capacity to appreciate good music. I know this is a very bold claim, but I don’t know how else to explain it. How else could you explain it? The quality between old music and new is so great that you’d think any person would be able to recognize it, but they don’t. Every decade except for this one had hundreds of famous and good songs that I’d enjoy listening to everyday. It is rare that a good song is found in this decade. Instead what we get are these overhyped bands followed by a moronic majority such as Jonas Brothers, Fall Out Boy, and Soulja Boy. None of these bands actually have musical talent or they just sample the crap out of old music. Plus, they all sound the same listless, boring, or emo. There is no passion involved in any of their songs. This is in fact not as broad of a generalization as you would think. Rock music and pop music have been decimated and I fail to see any recovery from it. At least we can take refuge in the amazing tones of each decade before this one. Each one was unique in its music and had tons of famous artists.

My claim here is that any person of intelligence if tested on what music they found more appealing, any music before this decade and music from this decade, the answer should be clear as day. The music today sucks.

It began at the end of the 80’s. When the record companies began simply pumping out slapass video after slapass video. Bands like Journey, Heart, Cheap Trick, Zeppelin, Rush, Yes, on and on, were great. Then we had long blonde queers like Nelson and Warrant and Marriah Carrey and Janet Jackson and Guns N Roses and Great White and White Cross and White Lion and White Snake and Paula Abdul and gawd remembers what-all crap they distributed each week. Then there was Nirvana and Alanis Morissette and Spin Doctors and Sound Garden and Phish. Then it got even worse… Cher came out with the first single to use the “vocoder”, that sickening vocal compressing device that has entirely survived the music industry in every genre, most especially (choke me!) Country music.

Today’s crap music has no feel. Nothing inspires you to reach for the stars and be a better person, it just caters to dumb people and promotes ignorant follower consumerism.

In my opinion music started to decline after nirvana came out and all the grunge bands that pretty much just sucked i listen to some of their songs and their terrible now you have stupid bands like all time low forever sickest kids and all of them personally i believe that the 80’s had the best music besides the 60’s cause bands like Warrant, Motley Crue, Guns N’ Roses all had soul and power when it came to their songs especially their guitar solos

I am only 15, myself, and I agree, most music now days that is mainstream does suck. You have to hunt around to find the good, modern bands that are sincere about the art. Once you do, trust me, it’s worth it. Much of what is on my iPod is older music. It’s the massive, monster corporations that are ruining the art form of music. They use people as tools to sell generic, corporate music to the masses. Worst part is, so many people are buying it o.0 I either have to go underground, back in time, or just pick and choose in a music snobbish fashion to find the good stuff.

Simple – Most kids today are lazy and dumb. Yes, that is true. Our society has made them that way.

Good music takes intelligence and hard work to create… both are rare in today’s youth.

They are too lazy to go beyond pressing a button on a software program to launch a beat pattern. ooooh, that takes a lot of talent and you should be so proud of yourself! HA!!!

Ever tried playing an Oboe? Or a Violin? Sorry, you fail.

What bands are you listening too? name one band thats even at the same level

It’s wrong to say that today’s music sucks and leave it at that. There’s the good and the bad, just like in decades past.

However, there is a lot of shit. Lots of bands/singers just plain suck (Franz Ferdinand) or have talent but have lame, uninspired songs (Rihanna & Taylor Swift). It’s a result of having stupid kids nurtured on stupid pop culture setting the bar on what “good” and “cool” is, and having the sheep conform to their stupid ideals.

am i the only one here who likes daft punk?! electronic is way better than rap even though it basicly has the same objective: to get people to bounce and dance and stuff. but just about any rap that isn’t underground sucks. the only songs i like are don’t stop the music by rihanna and stronger by kanye west because they both sample music by older artists that had big hits. there is my opinion

I think that when people look back on this period of music history, it will be like the Dark Ages of music. Declining sales, increasing loudness from bad mastering, and record companies going after peer-to-peer sites help this viewpoint. A lot of it in my opinion has to do with the loudness of CDs. Back when they were introduced in the 80s they had the same volume as the vinyl pressing of the same album. Now, when you see all these old albums “remastered” on CD, they’re loud as hell and sound like shit because of it.

Record companies are also blaming low sales on P2P sites like Pirate Bay, Mininova, Bt Junkie, Iso Hunt, etc. Funny, because the music everyone is downlading is good music (90s and earlier OR the non-mainstream 2000s bands). Shit like Fall Out Boy, Panic At The Disco, Jonas Brothers, Lil Wayne, Britney Spears… It’s so bad that no one even takes it for free when it’s a click of the mouse away. The vast majority of music that people download is stuff that was around before Napster.

To the people saying ‘death to indie!’
You are really moronic. No, really. Indie isn’t a genre, it’s short for independent. What does that mean? It means that these bands are signed to independent record labels i.e. not Sony BMG and the like, stuff which you haven’t heard of. And THAT means that they release what THEY want to, not what generic society dictates. Indie music rocks, it’s diverse and independent. So get your heads out of your asses before preaching your ignorance.

Pussy-cat skanks, shitney spears, and 50 cent woth of talent can take a hike.

Lol I love it – so true.

I’m not a parent yet, but fear the day my children come home and tell me one of these ‘artists’ is their role model.

I hate most modern music, I like some thought… most of it is too repetitive! The music in fallout 3 is what turned me off, each verse is different.

100% of today s music SUCKS,needs a TODAY S MUSIC DEMOLITION NIGHT,that is the mantra,The Reason of a Vengeance Reaction:Ignorant Jackasses with no Soul,independent from the Style,They Dont
Love Women,They dont Love Nobody,Romance Feeling,Passion,Get Horny,everthing was killed by a buncho of so Called”Artists”but they are just a”Pop Hookers”waiting for the easy money,during the apocalipse(2000 a.c),Record Companies discovered that instead of Good Music,Image Sells for stupids,so we have a army of Fakers,liars,Fashionists Schooeless person,airheads of pop and hip hop,dictate this shit,the pop is not democratic,is a dictatorship from Assholes to take control of young claque suckers,buying the midia press,radio,mtv with money,its a worst version of Citizen Kane,its worst than a Communist Regime,its a totalitarism of japanese executives,Stupid Rappers(eminen,dr dre,all this unhuman shit),crazy bitches(lady gaga,britney,madonna),pseudo-music producers(timbaland,mark ronson,all this unhuman shit),boy bands(green day,linkin park),i claim the world to curse this people for ever,and i hope people forget this bastards and send them to a limbo,i hope they lost all of the money that they won,so,remember you are controlled by a Zombies,dont be a zombie…

I am 44 years old. My first album was Kiss Alive 2. My last album was 4 non blondes. That’s a 20 year span. I feel very strong about music and Know excactly where and when it died. Nirvana. Nirvana was that last great band everything after that just plain sucks! There were a few bands that came from that Seattle scene that had a cool feel. Very few! And they didn’t last because thay can’t write. I was playing in 80’s pop-metal bands back then and remmeber it was very painful to see the music go down hill like that. Thats when I joined a 70’s band and pretty much played 70’s until 2009. Let me say that every decade had cheezy artist. And some of that is ok as long as it is minimal. But the cheeze has gotten out of hand! Just plain retarded. What happend is that Seattle scene was all about being striped down to the bare minimum and it’s been that way ever since. For some reason it just won’t recover. What the hell happened to SOLOS???? Just no techneque at all. And it was all about anti 80’s music…Why? Because they can’t play or sing like that. When I hear BECK on the radio it amazes me how that dude ever got signed. How abou crash test dummies or maybe nickleback. They ALL SUCK!!!!!!! There was LOU REED in the 70’s, but that was just ONE GUY. Now ya have evryone sounding like sh.. I do see a shift in music now, They play 80’s on the radio now and adam lambert and lady gaga are steering it in the right direction. I’m hopefull. I pray. God save rock and roll!

I’m 17 and in my honest opinion about 80% of the music thats been coming out between 05 and now has been pretty much total shit.. Yes there are a given few songs that are decent, but Music from the 60’s 70’s and 80’s is definitely better.. Hell even the 90’s was good. I dont understand why we cant have that type of music anymore. It’s all synthesized shit, repeating the same versus over and over. I think the music industry definitely needs to go back and look at what they used to put out, and resort back to that.

I hope the next generation creates a new genre or go back to good old MUSIC, not synthesized shit w/ nothing but sex,drugs,money,cars,bling.etc. for lyrics. And I sincerely hope that this decade’s musicians would know how to spell and use english words properly, for God’s sake, other non-english speaking countries’s music make use of the english language better than many of the mainstream music in america. I keep my fingers crossed for this decade though. BTW to those who keep saying that 2000s music does not suck and is in fact actually getting better, and that people just don’t know how to find it can’t accept the reality that music is really going downhill and that music today needs not improvement but major FIXING.

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yeah I’d totally cockslap paket!!! snobby little bitch

its all ture music today is nothing. to me music is dead, i listen to classical music, classic rock,roots reagge rock n roll 60’s 70’s 80’s

That’s right. Today, music sucks.

I’m 21 years old and I mainly listen to late 70s, 80s and early 90s songs and classical music.

The loudness war is for sure a cause. There is no dynamic range in music, nowadays.
Search for that “Loudness war”, you’ll be shocked.
That’s one cause why music has lost emotions.

Thank god, there is good cds from 80s. Don’t buy remasters.

I agree. MOST music is about opinion. The genre of music you like is generally dictated by opinion. BUT today’s music is absolute shit. It makes me feel like a sewage drain is pouring in my mouth. Forget the fact that the musics not creative or uses stupid trendy theme’s like texting lingo i.e. “OMG”. The people who make the music are disgraces to the world and should have a shotgun put to there nonexisting nuts. In the end all their music comes down one thing. SEX. read the lyrics. first of all these people are so illiterate it makes me want to puke. second of all if your able to read the lyrics( good luck) you’ll see it all comes down to sex and love. and not like a Stevie nix love song im talking “let me drop a G string down south” love song. (you can thank that cuban piece of shit Pitbull for that lyric)When I say “they” im refering more to the people they play on the radio. I.E. lady gaga, Pitbull,Ke$ha ( whats with the money sign in her name?). They are absolutely disgraceful and encourage the sexual revolution and other things like homosexuality and bisexuality ( no offense gay people but please keep it to your selves). Now back to the music itself. The music is unoriginal and stupid and teaches no good message. All the songs are about love or relationships because the teens go for that stuff.Now im sure there’s decent newer music out there but this shit sucks. guys i’m writing this and i’m 13. If you want good music listen to rush. Rush has helped me understand life alot better just by there lyrics. Also Pink Floyd kicks ASS and led Zeppelin.( i agree with bryan about rap stars to). There are alot of non charted bands like Brand New or Coheed and Cambria that are absolutely amazing but there smart enough to stay off the major radio waves to avoid songs being killed.

okay so thats the point no one wants to turn on CNN because its boring. If you can make the message more interesting people will actually get it. And fucking groupies isn’t a good example to give society. society has enough focus on sex. why do we need more?

I agree. Actually there are plenty of ideas left. Just no Ideas about love and relationships left. Listen. I love rush. you no why? they are fun at the same time of being serious and poetic. God, reading their lyrics is like reading from a book of Philosophy. It defines every day life and occurences and goes deep into life’s many meanings.
God, if i tried to tell this to someone in my school they’d laugh themselves to death. but its true. no one has good ideas cause no one can think out of the box of love and relationships. I mean look at Pink Floyd. Listening to Roger and David sing is like listening to what I call Epic Poetry. Its strong, sometimes wierd, but always good.

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I agree. So? Stalin killed alot of people in Russia so it must be good right. DEAD FUCKING WRONG. IF YOU THINK THAT POPULAR OPONION IS RIGHT YOU ARE WRONG BECAUSE SOCIETY HAS BECOME SLAVES TO THOSE FAT BASTARDS IN THE RECORD COMPANIES AND THINK ITS OKAY.I’M GONNA DROP A RUSH LYRIC FOR YOU.”CULTURE IS THE CURSE OF THE THINKING CLASS” HOW RIGHT NIEL PEART IS. WHEN HE SAYS CULTURE HE DOESNT MEAN LIKE OH IM ITALIAN SO I EAT SPEGHETTI HE MEANS SOCIETY. sOCIETY HAS HAD ITS STRINGS PULLED LIKE PUPPETS BY THE BIG RECORD COMPANIES.[:) METALLICA!!!!)

Here’s a summary of my music today sucks.( not all modern music sucks, just most of the mainstream crap). First of all, its the big buisnesses fault.They pollute our minds with catchy beats and controversial figures who are either immoral or just plain dumb. The big record companies are afraid to sign good bands because they know that there is better music out there that will destroy there profits. The second thing is that Society is having its strings pulled by this music and its figures because they like the trendy ness or because its cute or whatever. Society needs to think.THINK. thats the objective. If people thought about the things they were listening to and the way big record companies work they’d realize that they need to stop supporting these buisnesses. Its fine if you like the beat or whatever but don’t base a lifestyle of the crappy messages of today’s music or there figures(not all of them are bad but still…).Society is the reason crap music is successful.The second reason music sucks today is because no one thinks out of the box. Its all about love and relationships. I love progressive rock[:)rush] because its like reading a philosophy book. Its interesting, the music is fun and portrays good messages. But no one thinks outside of love and relationships.
So, its big buisness, society, and unoriginality that make music suck today. PERIOD.

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Jethro Tull!!!!! love locomotive breath. like i said. Today’s music= no originality

But it’s more than having lost meaning. There is no more great riffs or hooks in todays music! The 50s 60s and 70s were filled with catchy classics. There’s no denying that more recent singers (Whitney Houston, Mariah carey, Celine Dion) can sing but their music is absolute monotonous CRAP.

There is good music today, you will just have to look for it. This article is nothing more than just nostalgia. I like old music too but I am just saying that not everything then was good. There was plenty of shit music in the 1960s-1990s too. For every Black Sabbath, Megadeth and Judas Priest, you had crap like Lawrence Welk and Michael Bolton. Like what I said, there is good music now. Most of you are only focused on the stuff that is played on the TV and the radio.

This talks about radio, mainstream music.

Anyone who has any knowledge of underground music knows that mainstream is simply the raped and tattered remains of actual music.

I don’t get it I’m 15 but I listen to beatles stones who queen and zep and then I hear modern music and all there is that’s good is the Foo Fighters and them crooked vultures (Dave Grohl, John Paul Jones and some other guy) and we all can thank the radio

“All we hear is radio gaga”-Roger Taylor/Freddie Mercury
“Revolution 9 is what music will eventually turn into”-John Lennon
“Dave Grohl is the last hope for music”-Jimmy Page
“We’re still around to keep whatever is left of music alive”-Kieth Richards
“Being Zak is younger we seem to be looked as by more current”-Pete Townshend
These legends told us

@wait!wait! The problem is that you are focusing on all of the stuff played on the radio, that isn’t the only music that exists you know. There are plenty of great bands in the underground. Yeah, a lot of music that is played on the radio and TV is generally crap but there is tons of great stuff out there. Like what I said, you will just have to look for it.

Yeah you got a point about the radio. I wasn’t old enough to remember when radio was good though anyways (born in 1993). I never listen to the radio since they play the same 10-15 cookie cutter pop songs all day long and the songs are censored. Who wants to listen to censored songs all day anyways? I just hook up my iPod to the radio and listen to music from it while I am driving. Another reason why the music industry is suffering is because many people would rather download their music rather than purchasing it. Shame.

I disagree entirely. Not all music today sucks. There is great stuff coming out today just like yesterday. True, there is a lot of crap coming out today but there was a lot of awful music in the past too. It’s just that the crap has been forgotten about over time and the good stuff is remembered. Who the hell expects to find good music on the radio nowadays? There is Youtube and magazines where you can find new music that is amazing. I for one happen to like a lot of modern music, it’s just that none of it is played on terrestrial radio and if you guys think that you can do better than today’s musician’s then let’s stop complaining and start creating. Whining and complaining will only get you so far.

Why must kids today “grow up” to acquire great musical taste? The great music ought to be there NOW. Yes when I was a kid we had the Monkees, but we also heard on the radio (1967)…

The Who
Marvin Gaye
The Four Tops
Johnny Rivers
Ray Charles
Jefferson Airplane
Booker T and The MGs
The Turtles
James Brown
Wilson Pickett
Aretha Franklin
Young Rascals
Temptations
Fifth Dimension
Hollies
Diana Ross and The Supremes
Procol Harum
Martha and The Vandella
Van Morrison
The Happenings
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Sam and Dave
Frankie Valli
Stevie Wonder
Tommy James and The Shondells
Young Rascals
Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra
The Doors
Lulu

“I learned to hate music” – Joni Mitchell
“todays music scene is retarded” – my 25 year-old son

de gustibus non est disputandum

The MAIN REASON to Todays Music Sucks is a SIMPLE PLAN(im not talking about the band):
RECORD COMPANIES+MONEY=BRIBE
BRIBE BUYS=MTV+RADIOS+SITES+

you know what? EVERYTHING novadays suck. Music, TV shows, Movies just everything got cheaper and they are based on one simple formula. They all became same, open the radio and listen to the songs. %90 of them have the same beat, same lyrics on difrent order. For me music should feed your soul, create some vibes in you. But what we listen now is definetly not original faaaar away from creativity plus it makes us forget about real life, by creating a fantasy world. Seriously people how many of you can party everyday, can live a super fast life not thinking about how to survive in this world we living in?

Yes music today is garbage. No ifs, ands or buts about it. All of today’s music sounds exactly the same and none of the so-called entertainers (I refuse to call them artists because they are not!) can even sing. They use autotune to make it look like they could sing but if you take that away, they sound like total garbage. The state of music today is dismal. This is why people download music now instead of purchasing it and it’s a shame. People are sick of the crap that is force fed down their throats everyday. Whatever happened to the days when music took talent? Whatever happened to the passion, the soul, the melody, the effort? Whatever happened to musicians that actually played instruments, not using studio equipment to make it seem like you have talent? All this crap I hear on the radio and TV is completely soulless and just made for a quick buck. I don’t even listen to the radio, it’s repetitive and plays the same 15 songs all day long, all censored . All of the radio stations in my city are either Spanish or rap stations. If you were wondering, I am a 17 year old girl who loves classic rock, classic punk and classic metal and is sick of the crap that passes for music these days.

I can’t really say if today’s music sucks because we are at a point where there is so much it’s impossible to keep track. Overall pop music, yeah, worthless. But dig deeper & take the time to find music & you’ll be rewarded.

The music industry is in worse shape now as I write this than when this thread was started! Anybody can create a song and distribute it. That means a lot more music made with less effort and reward. So those who have put the time in think “what’s the point” if they can’t make a living from it. How much is a label going to invest in a product that is easily “shared”?

Still, I have have trouble writing of music as a whole because those who really love music will make albums they want to be proud of & I’m really enjoying “Cosmogramma”!

You my friend are an idiot… How can you even compare the simplistic lyrics of modern songs with those of the past, the shamefully inserted computer instrumentals with the instrumentals of true artists? There is nothing of talent in repeated choruses of getting down or getting laid. Hip hop or pop is absolute garbage! Lets just hand the credentials to the computers and auto tuning. Maybe you and others like you will be happy when someday a computer song generator comes out with all your songs!

Someone earlier said that it’s ” time to invent a new genre, people.” Well, I guess it’s here. But it sucks. The thing is, the old genre, Rock N Roll, well, it Rocked.
I think music back then up into the 90s a bit, even, had the art of orchestra. The orchestras that the beatles had sounded kick a. Now orchestras in the background sounds like a keyboard.
There are no more fun songs either. Just fun laid back songs you can skat to.
Music was waaaaaaaaaaayyyyy diverse, I mean you don’t really have the crooning big band style of The Rat Pack today like you did then. Country really sounds a lot like hannah montanna’s songs today. And rock music has kinda turned into less rebel, more poser.
Anyway. The best stuff todya is still kinda bad, Train’s soul sister kinda does not make sense.
But I don’t know, thinking about the future, I’ll be 75 years old in 2064 the beatles will be 100 and I doubt that a whole bunch of anything older, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, old stuff likePerry Como and Roy Rogers will be readily available at walmart. I guess, then, Ill just have to get by with and be old with just ok music and not awesome music.

The best bands are the ones YOU relate to most. In my case, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, Sick of It All,and Blood for Blood are the best bands ever.

I am 14 and I believe that modern day music sucks.Its too clear(no imperfections,NO SOUL!!!)Classic Rock has soul. Pink Floyd,The who,rolling stones,Eric Clapton etc.I don’t listen to that Rap Crap. You ask me I want Techno. Heck No. Everybody is entitled their own opinion. but all I have to say to those people who are in love with rap, or techno or any of modern day crap. GET A F@#%&^% LIFE!!!!!!!

God didn’t invent the CD player for your vehicle. Just saying…

Most music is crap. And it’s frustrating figuring out WHY people are still buzzing over it. I doubt these “artists” would feel compelled to “create” if there wasn’t a giant market for it. As I used it, “music” could be exchanged with any other commodity… Many of our choices are false (should I buy this garbage CD or the other garbage CD?)It requires some effort to learn about what you spend your money on (sellers don’t inform people of what they’re buying any more than they are legally required to, unless the information positively distinguishes them) and it’s easy not to care. You might say: but this is music! you actually listen to it, HEAR IT- can’t they tell it sucks? Some would say the same for Pop Tarts. And some people love them still on and on…

The last great musical act was either Janet Jackson or Mariah Carey, because both were competing for album sells in the 90’s and also were highly popular. I think were it all went wrong, when people actually listened to Britney Spears- and her sing-song singing. It just went down from there because first of all Britney’s voice is very thin. Like literally, she does even sing she talks in most of her music with the help of auto tune. I think that is where it went all down the drain. I am a 16 year old girl and to me Britney Spears is just a mixture of Janet and Madonna, a very sad mixture. I feel that music is even taking downward spiral look at the people we have today : kesha,justin beiber and lady gaga. it is just terrible because they all used gimmicks to get the attention they need in order to sell records. Personally i am janet jackson fan, but only to these 4 albums control, rythem nation,janet and velvet rope. The others are iffy to me. Im also mariah carey fan, but i hate that she is trying to hard to be sexy it saddening because she has a gifted voice. i like music from the 50’s,60’s,70’s,80’s and 90’s and i also enjoy jazz. but music today is all about gimmicks and it is truly sad.

I totally agree todays lyrics do not come from the heart and soul “JUSTIN BIEBER” is a straight up fag once he hits puberty he wont sing any more. three days grace used to be good but there latest 2 albums suck ass!! its all fake and not real, singers and bands who cant write there own lyrics from true expierence suck and i sure as hell know i can cause i do my first album which is a demo called mirrors with three songs on it from a recording studio where i recorded for 60 dollars which is cheap as hell has sold by now around 60 to 100 cd’s in the past month my music is true and are from true life expierences and storys. linkin park used to be kick ass before they went soft like little bitches there hybrid and meteora covers were kick ass love them but not so much now the music i make is my ups and downs in life and i can not wait till one day i make it …….

Well, I’m back! LOl. 3rd post here since 2007 and I do see music changing slowly! Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars are cool. (but not super in my book)Mtv anounced they are going back to playing videos? That’s what I hear. I’m kind of perminatly pissed at them though for ruining the whole music scene. Azzholes! Most people here make a good point, some haven’t a clue. I still claim Nirvana as the last great band and I even hate grunge! But Kurt was the real deal! I don’t like music after 1994. It just got plain retarded. These 90’s leftovers just love to bash the 80’s. Why? Can somebody explain that? The 80’s were awesome, yes there was some cheese, but it was fun cheese lol. I see nothing FUN about anything after 94. Actually it’s depressing! 3 chord ditys about heroin and death doesn’t do it for me. You guys suck! No vision what so ever! Anyway, I think Kirt was so great because he had issues growing up. What do kids today have issues about? Their x-box braking? LMAO! Or having to actually walk to school once? You can have it only so easy before it starts to effect your brain. Brittny sprears is the perfect example of this. Dipshit.
I like Elvis To Extreme and everything inbetween! That’s my quote and I am sticking with that. Lets get back to great musicianship because we’ve all had enough!

What? music isnt just for listening to the words, thats what rap is for. Music is about listening to all the instruments as an experiment, and letting them take you on an emotional ride. Lyrics are just one part of a song.

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Talent is no longer required. All you have to be is crass lewd and appeal to the lowest common denominator.In today’s music this includes Rap, Hip-Hop,Formulaic Country, Pop, Alternative, Rock. ever notice how the themes of EVERY SINGLE ONE of the genres mentioned is the same unto itself. ALL the rap artists sound the same as do ALL the others. And you people eat it up. Idiots one and all.

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as soon as you require musicianship (whats missing in todays music)

the field becomes a lot less full

you get rid of all these “singers” who think they gotta song everytime they spew out some stupidity on paper that they can convice couple of people to play background crap to

music without instruments playing in the foreground sucks and its easy, thats why you gotta million singers with pointless bands

a year or so back I listened to mainstream junk on the radio. then my friend introduced me to more of the beatles. damn I was missing out on good shit. so I went looking around and found some more great bands like the rolling stones, led Zeppelin, others.. from that moment on the radio pissed me off and I absolutely hate most modern music. older music is just so much better. and the lyrics aren’t just rape sex drugs profanity.. other dumb crap. anybody got suggestions for other great bands???? it’s like my addiction now